Atos Origin and Cordys sign worldwide alliance agreement to offer innovative SOA based BPM solutions.

June 18, 2008 (PRESSbooth.ORG) -- Atos Origin, an international IT services company, and Cordys, a leading Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) provider, have signed a worldwide alliance to jointly offer innovative state-of-the-art BPM solutions. The companies will collaborate on the implementation of joint market offerings; using the Cordys Business Process Management Suite (BPMS), in conjunction with a range of consulting, systems integration, application management and managed operation services from Atos Origin.

Atos Origin will support Cordys worldwide in offering an industry-leading Business Process Management Suite (BPMS), which enables companies to design, execute, monitor and improve business processes spanning multiple systems and applications. The Cordys solution allows clients to efficiently create process-centric composite applications and maintain them throughout their lifecycle, regardless of underlying workflow, semantics, user rules and applications.

Jan Baan, CEO Cordys, stated: "Cordys is excited with Atos Origin as a global services partner. Atos Origin is one of the few companies that can offer the full range of business consulting, system integration and outsourcing services on a global scale. For Cordys, the business relationship is a natural extension, further enabling us to offer our leading BPM suite to a far broader market."

Pieter Buijs, Chief Technology Officer, Atos Origin, added: "Atos Origin is a firm believer in the unique value that Cordys BPMS offers in today's competitive marketplace, where the ability to quickly design and adapt business processes in concert with their underlying information systems is crucial to achieve operational effectiveness, based on lower IT cost. Cordys BPMS will help us optimise time to answer bids, reduce the costs of supporting several applications in multiple countries, and provide worldwide organisations with one single platform to distribute policies, procedures, presentations, and documents. By combining our BPM expertise with Cordys state-of-the-art solutions, we will continue to offer our clients significant added value for their business improvement initiatives."

BPM is a key initiative of Atos Origin and the company has already deployed BPM solutions with customers worldwide; its revenue in this domain increased by more than 30% last year. The solution offers an effective tool for international organisations to share the right information, quickly and efficiently. Atos Origin implements Cordys BPMS as a full-range service, providing the overall spectrum of services and skills required. The implementation of market leading BPMS from Cordys is embedded in a full delivery model, encompassing:

• Business consultancy: identifying the business opportunities and benefits in both business and engineering environments

• Technical consultancy: how to fit Cordys BPMS into the existing or planned IT infrastructure, and how it will interact with both modern and legacy enterprise systems

• Evaluation and solution selection

• System development, integration and deployment

• Ongoing application management and support

• Application hosting